Method of forming wire stays.



I c. R. NELSON. METHOD OF FORMING WlRE STAYS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13,1915.

Patented NOV. 13,1917.

I Mot/"e13 such stays may be formed.

To a ZZ whom it may concern:

' Be it known'xthat I,"GJEAnLns"RiNnLsoiv; a citizen of the United States, residingat New York, in the county of New York and State of N ew'York, have invented new-and useful Improvements in the Methods. of Forming Wire Stays, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the method'of forming wire stays and consists in certain improvements therein as will be hereinafter fully claim., v V

-In forming wire stays it has been common to. corrugate the wire giving. to the 'wire transverse -portions with connecting.

. end portions or eyes.

experienced in giving to the eyesa bend as desired, in that such a sharp'bend would necessitate reducing the size' of the pins over which the wire is bent beyond their capacity to stand the strain.

speed at which In carrying out 'theinvention I utilize the mechanism shown in'the drawing. where m Figure 1 shows, a plan chine. Fig. 2. a sectional view on the line 2*2 view of the 'ma in Fig. 1.

1 marks the base of the machine: 'Extending upwardly from one end of the base are posts 2, provided with'the bearings 3 in which the shafts, 4 are journaled. Corrugating wheels 5'are mounted on the shafts 4:. These corrugatingwheels-have a series of teeth which intermesh and the edges of these teeth maybe made assharp as desired 10 and the ends or and the corresponding grooves in the companion wheel-made as sharp as desired so as to give to thewire fed through the wheels a sharp bend. One of the shafts 4 is driven by a pulley 6 and gears 7 communicate the movement from one shaft to the other.

The Wire 8 is fedthrough a guide 9 and into these corrugating. wheels. It. comes from' them with sharp bendshaving the transverse portions loops 11. The wire then passes to the compressing rolls 12 being turned a quarter turn in passing from the 7 METHOD FtoRMaw;istsTrgs.? If;

described-and pointed' out in the.

.one of the shafts 18 is The pres ent invention obviates this difliculty-and also materially increases the a Fig." 1 where handling and g a p roduct. Itwillalso benoted that the opopen corrugations with eyes or loops assures the forming of the "I;

for eorivenienee-imhe ope'ration of themachine; In starting the machine'the al in passingfrom quarter turn of the mater the wheels5 to the'roll 12 is made byhand but after the wire enters between the rolls 12 this turn is done by the machine itself;

Gears 15 are fixed on the-shafts 13 andjre ceive motion from one of the gears7 through an intermediate gear 16. Resisting rolls 1?; are-mounted on the shafts 18, which are" mounted in thebearings 19. A gear 20 on driven from'the'gear 21 on one of the shafts 13 I mediate gear 22,1the intermediate gear being carried by the bearings 23. The rolls 1?? are driven one from the other through the gears'24.

It will be notedthat the gear 20 is larger than the gear 21 so that the roll17 rotates slower than-the roll 12' and consequentlyv resists the forward movement ofthe corru gated wire, and consequently effects they onennns1a.lvnznsoiv, ornate-sesame,aesiemsiwwamesnitr tes,ba ana V .1 taIItLAItZD,PENNSYLKZANIA -i wheels to the rolls 12, this turning V "The rolls 12are mounted on the shafts 13 and thesearecarried in the bearings, 14;

through an intercompression of the wire lengthwise in its" passage from the rolls 12to the rolls 17. v In order to prevent the buckling of the wire in this This is formed in a plate 26 carried 'byfthe passage I provide the guide '25. I V v base. It has the reducedend 27 extending close to the bite of the rolls 12 and theare- 1 .1

duced end 28 extending intoclosepro'ximity,"

with the bite of the rolls 17. t V

The result of this construction is that as a; sharp a bend as may be. desired .ma yxbe I given to the eyes or loops 1l,.the wheels 7 the strain; and the stay can then be compressed so as to give any desired number sides of the loops into contact having suflicient metal to readily sustain or close to contact as shown at the right of the completed fabric is 1 shown. It will be notedthat this-corrugating and compressing movement is accomplished in acontinuous operation thu'sxfacilitating the j I assuring a more uniform eration of the rollsupon'the faceso'f' the loops along the same plane so that the stay as finished forms a substantially flat stay,

plane,

of crossings in a given lengthfpreferably bringing the hat I claim as new is The method of forming wire stays which consists in eorrugating the wire with sharp bends, and then compressing the corrugations or eyes so formed lengthwise of the stay by continuously and positively advancing the stay by engagement with the sides of the corrugations or eyes at two points, the rate of advance at the two points hav- 10 ing a fixed ratio and the rate of advance at CHARLES R. NELSON.

Witnesses FRED S. GARY, \VILLIAM J. REARDON.

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